The Glenwood girls golf team placed fifth at the Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln Invitational at Fox Run Golf Course last Wednesday.

Council Bluffs Lewis Central had a team round of 427 to win the event. Harlan was second with a 429.

Glenwood shot a 438 for fifth place.

Bianca Zerwas of Lewis Central shot a 100 for first place. A one-hole, playoff decided the runner up with Logan Doty of Fremont-Mills taking second, Emily Storey from Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson third and Glenwood’s Morgan Woodrum fourth.

One year removed from an auto accident that has left her with full paralysis in the lower half of her body, the 22-year-old Wayne State College student is determined as ever to return to a lifestyle of total independence.

As far as Renee Coffey is concerned, she will always have eight children.

Renee and husband Charles lost their daughter Amanda Grace a little over six year ago to complications from anencephaly, a neural tube defect that prevented their daughter’s skull and brain from developing properly.

Amanda Grace Coffey was delivered by cesarean at Creighton University Medical Center on April 23, 2004. She lived just over 27 hours and died surrounded by her mother, father and seven brothers and sisters.

The Glenwood boys track team rested some of its top runners and shuffled lineups in some other events while placing second at the Atlantic Co-Ed Track Invitational on Friday.

The Rams finished with 86 points. Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln and Harlan tied for first at the meet with 108 points.

“We purposely went into this meet trying to get our athletes a good workout while resting a a few others,” said Glenwood coach Mark Starner. “Our goal wasn't to necessarily win the meet, but to compete and be in the top three at the end of the meet.